MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Ticker) -- Maybe the Sacramento Kings should
have let Jason Williams play in the fourth quarter.

Williams had 19 points and 13 assists, dominating his former
team in the final minutes as the shorthanded Memphis Grizzlies
stunned the Kings, 98-94.

For the better part of his three seasons in Sacramento, the
flashy but often ineffective Williams found himself on the bench
in the fourth quarter. After getting traded for the reliable
Mike Bibby in the offseason, Williams used his first meeting
with his former squad to show what he can do down the stretch.

"I don't think we took it personally, he took it personally,"
said Kings guard Bobby Jackson. "He wanted to beat us badly. He
put the team on his shoulders and made some key shots. He made
some key assists and did the right things to get them the win."

"He's one of your money guys," Memphis coach Sidney Lowe said.
"You have to be with him when he accomplishes a win and when he
fails. You stick with him. We're in this thing for the good and
the bad so I put him in there to finish the game for us."

Williams re-entered the game with 4:37 remaining and assisted on
Tony Massenburg's dunk just 40 seconds later to spark a 13-2
game-ending run.

Williams drained 20-foot jumper in front of the Sacramento bench
to bring the Grizzlies within 92-90 with 2:17 left and tied it
moments later. He picked up a loose ball on the defensive end
and ran downcourt, using a behind-the-back move to go around
Bibby and make a game-tying layup with 1:56 to go.

Spanish rookie Pau Gasol gave Memphis the lead, 94-92, on a
layup off a one-handed pass from Williams with 1:11 left.

Williams drained a jumper over Bibby with 42 seconds remaining
and made a pair of free throws with seven seconds to go as
Memphis snapped a six-game losing streak and five-game slide to
the Kings.

Sacramento did not make a shot in the final 4:48, making just
4-of-6 free throws in the final 4:07.

"If you can hold a team like that to no field goals in five
minutes then you've got a pretty good chance," Lowe said.
"Hopefully the guys saw tonight what it takes to win."

Rodney Buford scored a career-high 21 points and rookie Shane
Battier added 15 for the Grizzlies, who played without injured
forwards Stromile Swift and Lorenzen Wright.

"Everyone had to pick up the slack, that's life in the NBA,"
Battier said, "You're always going to have some sort of
injuries, but you've got to find a way and that's what we did
tonight with a total team effort."

Isaac Austin started in place of Wright, the team's leading
scorer and rebounder, and had six points and seven rebounds.

"Guys got hurt and there was an opportunity for me to play,"
Austin said. "You've got to take advantage, it's about staying
ready in this league. We're going to wait until our guys get
healthy and try to continue what we're doing."

Gasol finished with 15 points and Massenburg added 10 off the
bench.

Peja Stojakovic scored 21 points to lead Sacramento, which had a
three-game winning streak snapped and has lost three of its last
four on the road.

"This is a game we should've won," Jackson said. "A team that is
1-11, for us to be a championship team, we have to beat teams
like this."

Sacramento closed the first quarter on an 18-6 run to take a
34-22 lead. It has its biggest lead, 50-35, 3:59 left in the
second quarter before the Grizzlies closed the half with a 16-6
burst.

Williams nailed three 3-pointers during the burst and rookie
Will Solomon scored his only four points as Memphis pulled
within 56-51 at the half.

"I didn't think we played very good in the second at all," Kings
coach Rick Adelman said. "Even though we were up 15, we had
lapses defensively. Then they got back in the game and they
hung around. We had a chance to open it up and we couldn't do
it."

The Kings reeled off eight straight points to take a 64-56 lead
with 8:37 left in the third, but the Grizzlies repsonded with
six in a row to close within a basket, but would not get the
lead until Williams took over the final minutes.